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Activity Overview
An exceptional way for your students to follow a story is for them to track the events from it. Not only is this a great way to teach the parts of a plot, but it also reinforces major events, which helps students develop better understanding of how the events fit together to provide the overall structure of the story. Use the storyboard above as a template, or create your own. Copying the assignment will provide you with a blank sequencing timeline as well as the completed example to edit as you wish.
Sequence of Events for The 13 Clocks
| Event Number | Text | Paraphrase |
|---|---|---|
| Event One | "...the Duke decided he had murdered time, slain it with his sword, and wiped his bloody blade upon its beard and left it lying there, bleeding hours and minutes." | The Duke 'murders' time. He keeps Princess Saralinda locked in his castle and gives impossible tasks for her suitors. |
| Event Two | "I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good." | Xingu (Zorn of Zorna) comes to town in search of a fair maiden. He decides he wants to try for Saralinda's hand in marriage. He and Golux form a plan. |
| Event Three | "I give you nine and ninety hours, not nine and ninety days, to find a thousand jewels and bring them here. When you return the clocks must all be striking five." | The Duke knows Xingu is Zorn of Zorna and he gives him a seeming impossible task for Saralinda's hand. |
| Event Four | "Hagga laughed and kept on laughing, and precious jewels twinkled down her cheek and sparkled on the floor, until the hut was ankle-deep in diamonds and in rubies." | Zorn and Golux search for the 1,000 jewels. They go to Hagga's house and make her laugh so she cries jewels. Long ago King Gwain granted her the power to cry jewels. |
| Event Five | "If you can touch the clocks and never start them, then you can start the clocks and never touch them." | When they get back to the castle, Princess Saralinda, helps them unfreeze the clocks. |
| Event Six | "She's not my niece. I stole her from a king." | Zorn completes the impossible task. The Duke tells them that Saralinda was not his niece and that he stole her long ago. Hark reveals that he is King Gwain's servant. |
| Event Seven | "Princess Saralinda thought she saw, as people often think they see, on clear and windless days, the distant shining shores of Ever After." | Zorn and Saralinda ride off, happily. The Duke is eaten by the Todal. |
Template and Class Instructions
(These instructions are completely customizable. After clicking "Copy Activity", update the instructions on the Edit Tab of the assignment.)
Student Instructions
- Click "Start Assignment".
- Write a the events of the story in each description box.
- Illustrate each event using appropriate scenes, characters, and items.
- Save and Exit
Lesson Plan Reference
Common Core Standards
- [ELA-Literacy/RL/3/5] Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
Rubric
(You can also create your own on Quick Rubric.)
Sequence of Events Rubric
Create a storyboard that shows a sequence of events. Below each cell, type in a description about the importance of that part of the story.
| Proficient | Emerging | Beginning | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Events | Each of the cells represents a different part of the story. The cells are in order from beginning to end. | One cell is out of order, or the storyboard is missing important information. | Important information is missing and/or two or more cells are out of order. |
| Images | Cells include images that accurately show events in the story and do not get in the way of understanding. | Most images show the events of the story, but some are incorrect. | The images are unclear or do not make sense with the story. |
| Descriptions | Descriptions match the images and show the change over time. | Descriptions do not always match the images or mention the importance of the event. | Descriptions are missing or do not match the images. |
| Spelling and Grammar | Spelling and grammar is mostly accurate. Mistakes do not get in the way of understanding. | Spelling is very inaccurate and hinders full understanding. | Text is very difficult to understand. |
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